On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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March 1, 2021
This research note by Gabriel Eidelman et. al. describes the Canadian Municipal Elections Database (CMED), a new publicly available and actively maintained dataset of more than 24,000 municipal elections in Canada. It describes the need for high-quality election results data...
Read full articleMarch 1, 2021
The Toronto-based Bureau of Municipal Research published over 800 bulletins and reports on urban issues in Canada between 1914 and 1983. Much has been written about its parent organization, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. But the history of...
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Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew, and Yanos Zylberberg. 2020 Formerly industrial cities tend to have eastern suburbs that are notably poorer than their western suburbs. Is this partially explained by patterns of atmospheric pollution during the Industrial Revolution? Watch the full...
Read full articleFebruary 10, 2021
Co-authored by the Munk School’s Peter Loewen, the 2019 Canadian Election Study (CES) consists of two separate surveys with campaign-period rolling cross-sections and post-election follow-ups. The parallel studies were conducted online and through a random-digit-dial (RDD) telephone survey. Both continue...
Read full articleFebruary 2, 2021
Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that...
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February 2, 2021
Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that...
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January 27, 2021
Attacks on journalists and freedom of the press have increased markedly over the past several years around the globe, yet most journalists are not adopting online security practices that could help defend against such attacks. This new report from Citizen...
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January 27, 2021
In this new Ontario 360 report, authors Sean Speer, Drew Fagan, and Luka Glozic examine current economic efforts by Canadian policymakers, how they compare to other jurisdictions, and how to best plan for the post pandemic future. The recent spike...
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January 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared 10 months ago, in March 2020. For many, this seems like a lifetime ago. The virus has taken a substantial toll, not only in deaths, but also in the costs people around the world...
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January 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important and increasing in frequency. However, the division of international relations into international political economy (IPE)...
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